Restoration Guide: Daisy Wheel Printer Belt Replacement for Apple Lisa During a recent restoration project, I finished a nasty repair procedure for the Apple-branded Daisy Wheel printer, one of the few compatible printers for the Apple Lisa system. This post addresses a common failure point: the deteriorating drive belt, which typically disintegrates into bare wires…
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MacTCP Done Right
After many months of dancing with MacTCP again (first round was decades ago of course) I decided to do it Right and get to the latest most patchiest version to see if it would help with some issues I’m having. What issues do I have with MacTCP in 2024? And why am I using it?…
Markdown and MarsEdit
Note Using Markdown with MarsEdit So I don’t forget…
SDKMAN
This may be the easiest jdk installation I’ve ever done on mac. Now attempting installation… Looking for a previous installation of SDKMAN… Looking for unzip… Looking for zip… Looking for curl… Looking for sed… Installing SDKMAN scripts… Create distribution directories… Getting available candidates… Prime platform file… Prime the config file… Installing script cli archive… *…
Brydge M3 Dock
I’ve enjoyed using Brydge MacBookPro stands for my older Intel MBPs and when I found out they have a M3 stand and dock I decided to go ahead and purchase this for my 14″ M3 MacBookPro. I didn’t have a dock yet for my MBP and so it was sitting in an old stand with…
Apple IP Gatekeeping in 2024
To continue on from the last post, which discussed AppleTalk, Ethertalk, and how routing between different Apple Internet Routers (AIR) is happening for #MARCHintosh, this post will be about IP Gatekeeping and how Apple provided software to help. After joining up and getting my SE/30 online with #GlobalTalk (it has an ethernet card) I realized…
Apple Internet Routing in 2024
Being an AppleTalk Network Admin is hard work in 2024. This hopefully helps level some of the rough edges that are out there. I’ll be updating it with more info and corrections as time permits. The guide that started it is here: https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2767 My download with all the software, tested on a real mac is…
AIR Quick Download Link
Here is a quick link to the download, while I sort out this plugin: https://dillernet.com/apple/download/apple-internet-router-package/…
AppleTalk 2024 MARCHintosh Project
Update 3 (March 8): The Quadra800 as AIR is totally stable, I’m enjoying all the fun things on other sites (using a SE/30 as workstation) and playing with getting screenshots converted back and forth. My ImageWriter Network card should be arriving to day and so I will have print sharing up and available. Looking for…
Refurbing Compact Macintosh Floppies
Sooner or later the floppies on these old macs are going to need a refurb, a cleaning or have the eject gear replaced. There are two really good videos about teardown, clean, fix and re-lube avaiable they are listed below. If you are going to do this have some proper lube ready to ensure the…
MacTCP System 6 Error Codes
With my new project (running a BBS on my Macintosh SE in System 6) using SubText an amazing modern BBS software server from JCS (Joshua Stein) I’ve encountered some System Errors- and like most things on the Internet today they are hard to google for (it seems like the world just searches for OSX info)…
OBS and App Audio Recording
Capturing this here because it’s so bizarre to do this in 2022. OSX Monterey, OBS running to record a running Altirra session (run via Crossover) and audio sounds like mud. It sounds that way because it’s the mic on the display that is picking up the audio from the speakers… How can OBS pick up…
SE/30 and HD20
Dammit The (non-SCSI) Hard Disk 20 does not work with the Macintosh SE/30. The Macintosh SE/30 has the same logic board and ROM as the Macintosh IIx, which does not support the Hard Disk 20. Therefore, the code to support the drive is not included in the ROM of the Macintosh SE/30. So much for…
The Best Windows or Linux Laptop
For a few years I’ve been looking for the best small light laptop for Windows or Linux. I love the mac trackpad and keyboard. I finally realized that I loved the Mac Hardware…
Apple IIGS and OBS
I’ve been using a IIGS lately for FujiNet testing. I wanted to connect the video to OBS. This scart converter was recommended and was a very nice solution to go from the RBG of the IIGS to HDMI…
Disk Jockey – manage disk images
An amazing utility for the Mac just popped up on my twitter feed and its looks like exactly what I need. Disk Jockey will Disk Jockey is a macOS application that lets you create disk images and analyze existing ones. It can create images that work in devices like BlueSCSI, FloppyEmu and RaSCSI, as well…
Display Port on TB3 MacBookPro
I have a MBP 14,3 and wanted to connect it to some external displays via DP. I have the apple TB2 to TB3 adapter (the one that goes to USBC connector) and I noticed that while it will work with the Apple Thunderbolt Display, connecting a LCD panel to this using a DP to mini-DP…
Photos and BigSur
Update: This issue has been solved. I had to completely repartition and format the external disks and ensure they contained at least one APFS Container. I’m guessing there is permission metadata contained in this that isn’t available with the partitions created in Catalina. Once they were partitioned and formatted in BigSur, and contained a container…
MacPro NVMe Update
So a few things have been learned regarding the MacPro and NVMe. Booting is fine. Multiple drives on a carrier is not. My MacPro refused to recognize the 4x Hyper 2x carrier with more than one NVMe drive in it. Even in the x16 PCI slot- and I tried both Slot 1 and 2 (there…
MacPro 5,1 – NVME Turbo Charging the Disks
Putting SSD drives into the MacPro was a total change in experiencing OSX. The increases in speed and responsiveness gave new life to this aging platform (mine is a Mid 2010). Â The next step in performance is using NVMe drives on the PCI buss. And this is surprisingly easy to do. Asus has an…
USB 3 for your MacPro 5,1
Now that my Mac is back I wanted to address another issue- lack of USB 3.1 and also general lack of USB. I’ve found that i’m using most of the available USB ports (many for multiple serial interfaces I use to connect to my SGI consoles). I also have a external drive that is USB…
MacPro 5,1 Firmware Problems
Recently my MacPro 5,1 (still running High Sierra) starting crashing on an OSX Update of some kind. It started mid-April and I’m not sure which one it was, but the Mac wouldn’t boot as it ended up in the crash screen for the installer with some sort of error on finding a file that wasn’t…
GamePad fail on MacOS
Update: May 2nd – I’m happy to say that a super cheap pair (you get two) of USB gamepads from Amazon did the trick. $ ./start-old.sh DonkeyKong.v2.atr Using Atari800 config file: atari800-80.cfg Created by Atari 800 Emulator, Version 3.1.0 joystick 0 found! joystick 1 not found Now I can enjoy games with sound and joystick…
Wireless Image transfer for iOS and MacOS
Today, while taking some shots of items for a post with my iPhone I needed to transfer them across to my Mac for some sizing, scaling, and prep for loading up to this blog. My goto app is ImageCapture.app on the Mac which lets me quickly see my iOS photos, select what I want to…
Macbook Air 11 – The Last Ones
I’ve had a MBA 11″ since 2011 (MacBookAir4,1) and I’ve never been able to find any other laptop that had such an unbeatable combination of size, speed, flexibility, and utility. My 11 has been amazing and my go-to mac (I also have a 13 and 15 MBPs between work and home) for most things, but…